Free Webinars: World Tour of Resources and UCSC Genome BrowserOpenHelix will be presenting two webinars: World Tour of Genomics Resources, May 21st at 1:00 EDT, and Introduction to the UCSC Genome Browser, June 17th at 1:00 EDT.
World Tour of Genomics Resources Webinar
This world tour of genomic resources will discuss the number and breadth of publicly available bioscience resources available to researchers. It will ...

UCSC replaces UCSC Genes with GENCODE as default gene setThis is a big deal. And now I have to change my training materials. But I think it’s worthwhile. The GENCODE set is very extensive and the range of annotated types captures important details.
This email came from the UCSC Genome Browser announcement mailing list. Pasting in full for those who aren’t on this list, or ...

What’s the Answer? (NGS tools you are using the most)There are a lot of tools in the bioinformatics ecosystem. Some of them you won’t ever need because of your particular research focus. For some of them you may want to know about similar alternatives. But my favorite types of discussions with practitioners of various sorts is what are they actually using. This week’s highlighted ...

Intro to UCSC Genome Browser webinar, tomorrow, June 17 2015Tomorrow (Wednesday US time) I’ll be doing a webinar on the basics of using the UCSC Genome Browser. If you haven’t spent much time using the browser, or you suspect there’s more to what you have been able to do, this introduction may help you out.
Register for the webinar here: http://www.bio-itworld.com/openhelix/introduction-to-the-ucsc-genome-browser-webinar/
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